Help disadvantaged Bengali children + young people

Alindra Naskar writes about the importance of the arts in education, something that we would do well to heed in the UK!!

"Our project centre is located at an inland rural area on the Deltas of the Sundarbans, the Southern region of West Bengal.
Our objective is to enable the children from a traditional poor life status to have a better future. They are growing up in a natural environment on their most basic needs, as the majority of parents exist on a daily subsistence wage.
It is easier to identify the most gifted ones among all we take care of within our school.  We offer them free choice to practise what they like most in after school clubs! 

I am sending along a few photographs which may illustrate this; some children are attentive in practising the skill of art more than they learn in the regular syllabus of our education system.
We like to identify many more children who are talented in ways other than the traditional academic, and give them extra opportunities to develop and make life more rounded in their future careers.
The New Life Centre school functions on the ethos of 'Human Resource Development' for the least fortunate children and women of rural communities especially those who are poor.
We appeal for support and encouragement. We cordially invite any well-wisher to contribute to the continuing success of our school and Vocational Training Centre.
Regards and best wishes."

These photos show an after school Art club for the children who enjoy Art and are particularly talented and keen to improve.